Friday

Students reviewed "Woman's Constancy" and received The Piano Lesson by August Wilson. The assignment is to read Act I, Scene 1 for Tuesday. Students should pay special attention to stage directions and all they reveal.

They also received the premier announcement of the next big thing, a three-part creative assignment: "Variations on a Theme."

CONSIDER a theme or recurring obsession of your own.
DECIDE how to comment on that theme.
CREATE a poem as either a spoken word performance or as a written piece that you will read to the class.
CREATE an audio-visual show that presents the same theme and a similar comment but in a new medium of video or slide show. Avoid lyrics in music that will interfere with or carry the theme: go for instrumentals. No spoken language allowed. The language must be visual and accompaniment must be aural.
CREATE a prose piece that works the same theme. Make it between one and three pages in length. Double space and type. Present it as well.

Have this art show ready for Thanksgiving week performances: that will be Monday and Tuesday, November 24 and 25. If you are skipping off to St. Thomas on the Friday before, then your due date is the Friday before, and you will miss the party (with pie).

This project is an INDIVIDUAL expression. You may certainly recruit help in producing its constituents, but YOU, individual guy, are solely responsible for its final form. I recommend you ask for and give help to classmates in the video portion.